On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
Vertex cache of programmable geometry processor The proposed architecture of vertex cache is divided into is proposed and implemented. The proposed vertex cache is pre-TnL vertex c...
Today’s superscalar microprocessors use large, heavily-ported physical register files (RFs) to increase the instruction throughput. The high complexity and power dissipation of ...
Deniz Balkan, Joseph J. Sharkey, Dmitry Ponomarev,...
In this paper, we present a new architectural concept for network processors called FlexPath NP. The central idea behind FlexPath NP is to systematically map network processor (NP...
Rainer Ohlendorf, Andreas Herkersdorf, Thomas Wild
Obtaining consistent bandwidth with predictable latency from disk-based storage systems has proven difficult due to the storage system’s inability to understand Quality of Serv...